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Sprint will most likely be/is one of the 'spartan abilities' we've heard about. Lets be level headed about this. Sprint could be implemented in a way that doesn't mess with the sandbox, much like this new 'ADS' which to me looks like they redesigned the zoom on the BR. This is the only one we have seen with 'ADS'. Keep your helmets on spartans, wait for the reveal.

Hmm, not sure how I feel about this. As relatively generic Master Chief is..... he is the Master Chief. But who knows, maybe Locke will be an immensely interesting character along the lines of the Arbiter.

I dunno why when I glanced it I thought you were reiterating that you do play for him 10% of the time. Heh, apologies. Removing bulletpoint, changed to this:

+ According to shinobi, Locke is pretty much the main character. He doesn't know exactly what the breakdown is between time you play as Master Chief and time you play as Locke, just that the majority of the time is Locke.

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I dunno why when I glanced it I thought you were reiterating that you do play for him 10% of the time. Heh, apologies. Removing bulletpoint, changed to this:

+ According to shinobi, Locke is pretty much the main character. He doesn't know exactly what the breakdown is between time you play as Master Chief and time you play as Locke, just that the majority of the time is Locke.

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Halo...I remember going into college dorm rooms rolling my eyes at 1. It was simply the best hack yet (at that point) for trying to make an fps play nice with a fucking handheld controller. And fuck me, people loved it. Plebian shit, yet look how its evolved. Now the entire genre has been preverted and everyone is use to the lack of accuracy associated with analog sticks...

I bounced in those early days and retreated back my dorm and the precision of Counter-Strike and Tribes. Click clack. Keyboard and mouse precision.

And now, a snippet of footage is released of H5 and GAF is up in arms about ADS, because Halo's gotta have that uber accurate hip fire "or else" 343 had murdered the game. Its a parody right?

I'd rather play UT.

Yet hear I am, a decade later, playing fucking first person shooters on analog sticks....

This has nothing to do with that mythical 10% figure, but Snake is really just in the prologue of MGS2 so if that comparison is perfectly accurate than Master Chief won't be playable much at all. I imagine he'll be what the story is about, though. I also wonder if the Arbiter might be a playable character as well? That would be something.

Pretty much what I'm saying is that even though 10% was never said, that doesn't seem too far off when it comes to MGS2 and how much time Snake was playable in that game. I really hope Nightfall does a good job at getting me to like Locke because right now I'm not really sure I like what I see of him.

Just like Tetris. Sometimes simplicity is perfection.
I'd honestly be fine with MCC being the only Halo game this generation as long as they came out with some new DLC maps and campaigns. Halo 2 will never be topped.

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Thought ADS meant sprint. Want to clarify my previous posts were about Sprint which absolutely ruins what Halo is, as well as the ADS. Completely changes the fundamentals of its floaty mechanics which I am a hardcore Halo MP fan.

I can live with sprint but I hate it. ADS that looks like every other military shooter really irks me. Abilities just need to go. I saw that clip early were the guy sprinting with the pistol, looked just like COD's sprint. C'mon man.

Now if there is separate playlist for all this new wacky stuff and classic gameplay then I'm all for this. But I bet there won't be. That would just result in very few playing the new stuff.

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I can live with sprint but I hate it. ADS that looks like every other military shooter really irks me. Abilities just need to go. I saw that clip early were the guy sprinting with the pistol, looked just like COD's sprint. C'mon man.

Now if there is separate playlist for all this new wacky stuff and classic gameplay then I'm all for this. But I bet there won't be. That would just result in very few playing the new stuff.

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I can live with sprint but I hate it. ADS that looks like every other military shooter really irks me. Abilities just need to go. I saw that clip early were the guy sprinting with the pistol, looked just like COD's sprint. C'mon man.

Now if there is separate playlist for all this new wacky stuff and classic gameplay then I'm all for this. But I bet there won't be. That would just result in very few playing the new stuff.

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I can live with sprint but I hate it. ADS that looks like every other military shooter really irks me. Abilities just need to go. I saw that clip early were the guy sprinting with the pistol, looked just like COD's sprint. C'mon man.

Now if there is separate playlist for all this new wacky stuff and classic gameplay then I'm all for this. But I bet there won't be. That would just result in very few playing the new stuff.

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Several more clips have leaked, and based on everything they show aim down sight has NOT been added to the game. It appears that the first clip simply shows the new implementation of the battle rifle&#8217;s zoom functionality. So, a lot of the outrage may be unfounded.

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Several more clips have leaked, and based on everything they show aim down sight has NOT been added to the game. It appears that the first clip simply shows the new implementation of the battle rifles zoom functionality. So, a lot of the outrage may be unfounded.

Halo 2 is dated. No wall running, no exoskeleton. No unlocks????! No armor customization. How does 343 expect me to play for hours if I can't unlock that damn gun so I can use it to pwn noobs. No prestige mode! Only rankings based on skill! Who wants that?

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As I said in HaloGAF, I think it's just a way to "name" the power weapons, which would essentially making it much cooler/add more importance to "controlling" them back when controlling power weapons and the map were the core of the Halo arena/competitive gameplay.

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I'm sorry, but do you think that because 5% of the playerbase of the Halo series doesn't like sprint or ads, that means 343 should cater their games to those 5%? Tens of millions of people play Halo, not just the gamers with NeoGAF accounts. Your opinion is not more valid than anyone elses.

Consider this. Arena FPS is a dead genre. Appealing to fans of a dead genre means you get ALL the sales of fans of that genre. Making your game the same as all the others means you're entering a crowded genre. MCC is appealing to arena shooter fans better than 343 developed Halo games. There's a whole crew of gamers waiting to give the next arena FPS game all their money.

Why Is Star Citizen breaking all the funding records? Fans of the genre have been starving.

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As I said in HaloGAF, I think it's just a way to "name" the power weapons, which would essentially making it much cooler/add more importance to "controlling" them back when controlling power weapons and the map were the core of the Halo arena/competitive gameplay.

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It'll split the userbase, but atleast there's still a way to play with the good mechanics. Maps are gonna be strange for one or both playlists though. Either they make them to work better with the ADS/Sprint mechanics, or better with the old mechanics, or some that work with one and some that work with the other.

Or they can just bring back the old maps for the classic playlist, but I still want some new maps.